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DUMONT D'URVILLE, CAPTAIN (later Rear-Admiral) JULES S-C.
- An Account in Two Volumes of Two Voyages To The South Seas. To Australia, New Zealand, Oceania 1826-1829 in the corvette Astrolabe and to the Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, South East Asia, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand and Torres Strait 1837-1840 in the corvettes Astrolabe and Zelee. Translated from the French and edited by Helen Rosenman.
Two Volumes; Reprint; Super Royal 8vo; Vol.1. pp. lv, 312; frontispiece, 27 plates eight of which are in colour, 13 maps one of which is double page, appendices, notes, Vol.11. pp. xiv, 319; frontispiece, 29 plates two of which are coloured, 16 maps including one double page map appendices, notes biographical index bibliography, index, original full canvas binding title lettered in gilt on red leather label on spine, in original slip case, a fine set.
Carlton; Melbourne University Press, 1988.
Excellent illustrations including sealers hut in Westernport, Sydney Cove, horse races, racial types in New Guinea and everyday life amongst the sailors. Also, unique insights into the feelings of the French as colonists who only wish to return to France after making their fortune compared to the English who will happily live in a colony and develop farms and businesses in the colony never returning to their homeland. Click here to Order
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